John, this rises above web manners. I posted about Ref 74 on my Facebook. He made his original remark, quoted in full above, on his. It was clearly a response to my post. I responded in his space as I quoted in full above. This isn't about manners and he wasn't scolding me for being rude. He was advocating for the denial of civil rights. It's my right--it's my responsibility as a human being--to call him on it. It's that or watch as rights get legislated away. He's coming for the gays and he's unapologetic about it. Who's he coming for next?

Seriously, do you think that an acceptable response to "Why didn't you say something to stop that bigot?" is to say, "Well, it would have been impolite?"